Sailing Sardinia Italy liveaboard catamaran lagoon 440 S.01 Ep.10

Sailing Sardinia Italy liveaboard catamaran lagoon 440 S.01 Ep.10

Welcome back to Sailing Sacred Seas. It’s hard to believe we’re already nearing the end of our first season. What an adventure it’s been so far. We’ve sailed nearly a thousand nautical miles, weaving our way through the sparkling waters of Spain, dropping anchor off the iconic islands of Athera, Malora, and Monorca. And on our last episode, we pushed ourselves further than ever before, taking on our longest passage yet, sailing day and night under the canopy of stars all the way to Sardinia. Now, and get off the rugged and unspoiled coastline of Sardinia, it’s time to slow down, explore what this incredible island has to offer. This episode is all about discovering hidden gems, finding those quiet, secluded anchorages, and embracing the rhythms of island life far away from the busy tourist hubs. And I’m still amazed by you. [Music] So hold me tight through the night. M. So I mean, look at this. I mean, last night we were absolutely creeping into this bay. Um, just lucky because it’s such a sheltered bay. And obviously we had the navigation on so we could see where the boys were and things uh and the navigation channels. And there’s so many kind of anchor spots in here that you are worried first of all that someone’s anchored and maybe not got their anchor light on. Uh and second of all the amount of lobster pots that you tend to get around the coast just everywhere. Um so we were really kind of creeping in helming searching with the torch every now and then but I mean you look at it now in the daylight and I mean what the hell were we worried about? But of course, you know, it only takes one lobster pot for you to go over and you can wrap it around the prop and rice off the engine for a while until you get the chance to do the repairs. And doing that in the pitch black again at 12:00, 1:00 in the morning, it’s not the easiest thing to do. So, it is always best to take the time and be cautious. But um it just kind of shows how different an approach it is in the evening and in the daytime and why it’s important to try if you can to arrive to places that are unknown during the day, especially kind of poor areas where you just don’t know what is going to be in there. because we rarely have seen a lot of lobster pots and we’ve seen a lot of boats without any type of moing lights or any type of night lights on at all when they’re anchored up at night. But, you know, everything’s good and we got in, we were shattered, we went to bed. This morning’s been a nice little relax and now we’re off again. The winds were kind to us, shifting gently between our aft and starboard side, perfect for a calm day sail. We made the short hop down the coast under just our headset. Pure peaceful sailing at its best before dropping the hook at beautiful Punto Desi. It was the perfect spot to celebrate Vika’s birthday aboard Kaya. Cake, music, and just the two of us, plus our three furry crew members surrounded by nature and turquoise waters. Moments like these remind us why we chose this life a float. Is that private time? It’s my birthday. Yeah, my birthday is my birthday. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Vikica. Happy birthday to you. So, it is morning time and I’m up doing a little solo sail this morning. Uh, I’m motoring at the minute. I might put the sail up in a bit, but the wind’s currently a bit low. Uh I did a little solo sale yesterday evening for a bit as well. Uh cuz Vikica leaves in a couple of days. She’s going to be gone for two weeks. So I’m doing a couple of days putting the anchor up on my own, sailing on my own. Uh just get a feel for it. Um, so we’re going to cruise down the coast only for an hour or so today um to start with because VGA’s got a call at 9:00, a work call uh for a podcast and then once she’s finished that we will carry on further down and we’ll get a good few hours in this afternoon. Move ourselves down the coast. Uh so far Sidian nice. It’s um quite a rustic west coast. Uh very quiet. the only sailboat we’ve seen since um since Spain. So, it’s been a while. A couple of motor boats, fishing boats, but nothing else. Uh so, yes, we’ll continue down see. So, that is actually one of our biggest dangers out here. That’s just two pieces of plastic, two plastic bottles tied to a big rope or a line going down to the seabed floor with a lobster pot on the bottom. And you can see even in the daytime that’s not easy to see. In the night time that is impossible to see. And if we go over the top of that, it could it gets stuck in our propeller, the line will wrap around and we could uh end up with it wrapped around the prop and we could do some damage to the engine or we could put our engines out of action for a while. Um, and that’s kind of what we were really looking for the other night with the torch when we were pulling it into the bay. Little things like that that are just simple but really kind of can cause a lot of damage and a lot of harm to the boat. Uh and I say in the dark just worry about it happened in the darker. Um luckily on our cat and obviously on a cat we’ve got two engines. So if something did happen like that that was bad we could switch one engine off uh use the other engine and deal with the problem later or in the morning whatever it may be. But um you just obviously you don’t want to have to. Uh at the same time, we all love lobster. It tastes pretty damn good. So we’ve got to catch them one way or another. But um the sensible ones have got a float with a flag on the top. So it’s much easier to see. In fact, it’s really easy to see in the daytime. Again, hard to see in the night time. and the really rarely sensible ones. I’ve got a flag and a flashing light, but you pretty much never see those ones. Uh I saw a few of them I suppose on the coast of Portugal, but sadly not seen any on our journey so far yet through Spain or this little bit of Sicily that we’re in. Sadinia, sorry. So, I’ve read about this or heard about this nice or interesting anchorage uh just here down the coast of Sardinia. So, we’re going to pop in there for an hour or so now and take a break while Vika does a podcast. Uh, it’s got some like big old abandoned hotel there. Um, and then it’s kind of bit overrun by goats and things post-apocalyptic. So, it sounds pretty cool to pop and have a little look. Um, got nice clear waters and caves. So, we’re just going to pull around and see what it looks like. So, we’re anchored up and you can see that postapocalyptic style building behind us. It looks like an old hotel that they started building and never finished for some reason. Um, but it’s a weirdly kind of nice, calm, beautiful, relaxed spot. The water is crystal clear. It’s only about 5 m deep, so we’re anchored up. Um, and we’re going to just relax for a little bit now. We’ll be good as a podcast. Most of the situations they are not going right. A lot of situations you don’t know. You know what happens? A lot of things break you know. And then uh when I reflect back to it, I really can say that probably 90 95% of the day at the beginning of this journey, you really pushed out of your comfort zone. So you really um your nervous system is so triggered. Your body is starting crunching. You starting holding everything and because you you out of the comfort zone. You out you you have to do things differently. You have to think differently. You have to find the solutions. You have to find the ways to communicate to other person how to share everything. So you’re not get you know you’re not starting to store all those emotions and the So that’s us. So we had a little anchor up here for a bit and now we’re going to carry on south. We’ve got about three three and a half hour sail I think. uh forget the name of the bay we’re going to, but it gets us a decent way down the west coast towards the south and uh then we’ll anchor up there and actually have a bit of a dip and relax and take the guys to the beach cuz it’s been a good few days since we’ve been on land now and uh enjoy the rest of the afternoon. [Music] As we continued down the coastline, Sardinia revealed its wilder, quieter side. Towering mountains rolled down to rustic, untouched beaches and little pockets of hidden coes that felt worlds away from the hustle of the Boleric Islands. The eastern coast felt raw and authentic, almost like we step back in time. It’s moments like these dropping anchor in solitude with nothing but the sound of the wind and waves that remind us how special cruising can be. [Music] So hopefully this is going to be our anchorage for the night. uh Port Damaso and we’ll just be just in front of Sugarloaf, Sugarloaf Mountain I think it’s called. Uh it’s supposed to be pretty nice with the sunsets and it’s looking pretty cool already. So we’re going to sail now between the land and the rock. [Music] [Music] What? [Music] Happy birthday to me. I’m scared. I’m not going. No. We’ll go slow just in case. Me out of here. I’ll pick you up on the way back. Yeah. I already let go. Wow. That’s pretty pretty epic. Like, huh? Oh my god. That’s cool. Hey, I know. It doesn’t look cool. That was pretty cool. You think magical? Yeah. What do you say in Brit in Brit in Great Britain? Fun. Dabby dozy. Spectacular. Spectacular. Spectacular. [Music] So, we’re currently moving ourselves down to the south west of Sardinia. It is, I think, Portusco. It’s uh one of the last large towns on the southwest. In fact, one of the large last towns from the southwest all the way across the south until you get to the capital, Calgia. Um and the reason we’re stopping here is so that Vika can get a cab from here to the airport and uh she’ll uh head off tomorrow morning and I’ll possibly have a little look around this area and then carry on round down to the south. gets bad reviews because of the eyes of the industrialness on uh kind of the navigation and the anchoring apps. But as I say, I don’t mind that at all to be honest with you. I’ve got to say though, it might be a bit of an industrial landscape, but I mean, look at this. Look, the industrial landscape and then look at this water. You certainly don’t see water like that back home on the Mury in Liverpool, that’s for sure. That is actually the biggest town we’ve seen in weeks to be honest with you. Over here next to the town, there’s a bit of an anchorage just here. So, we’re going to head over there, drop anchor, and get ourselves ready for the day. So, that was smart. I uh forgot to put the fishing line away before we mowed up. So, I’m going to have to go into the water now because it’s got caught in one of the propellers. and we’ll go and have a look and see if we can get it out. See what the damage is. With the propeller sorted and Kaya securely anchored and our days together ticking down before Vika headed off for a few weeks of our journey, we made one final stop in the charming town of Poruzuka. Wondering as quiet streets, sucking up local life, and enjoying simple moments on land give us both a sense of grounding. A chance to connect, reflect, and prepare for what’s next. Look, Sam is taking Goo for a walk, bro. Like I’m getting more. Look at those beautiful veggies. All the goodies. Hey, prepping me up before you leave. Yeah. Okay, let’s go. Oh my god. Show me the tub. They’re going to be so good. I’m just going to stuff my face with those unroasted pumpkins. Yeah, I’m I’m ready to getting ready to leave and getting ready Sam to stay on his own for two weeks. So, I got this treat for him. Yum, yum, yum. It’s in Italy just before I’m going back to Spain for Spanish tapas. So, tired. We are we are down on the southwest coast of Sardinia. This is Fica’s last evening before she leaves tomorrow to go to IA and the UK for a couple of weeks. Uh this is the view of the Bay of Sardinia and the boat is just out on a moing well anchored I should say, isn’t it? Anchored just outside of the uh marina and it’s a cute little town. Let’s do a let’s do a roundabout. I can’t do a roundabout. Do you do it on your own? I’ll do a roundabout on my own, but you can’t do it. Because I have to hold this. Cool. Hey. Oh, see you. See you in two weeks. Bye. Bye. Have a good flight. So Mink has just took her cab off to the airport and as I said it should be gone now for a couple of weeks. So I’m just walking back to the marina going to get in the dingy and jump back to the boat. Carrying on a bit of snooze and I’ll take the dogs out and things and uh decide what my plan’s going to be for the next 10 days, two weeks, but uh going to take it relatively easy. do a little bit of solo sailing over to the island and maybe move around to the south, but uh generally stay out bad weather and things and just see how we get on. So, safe flight and uh hopefully you’ll see a few little clips of uh what she got up to as well over those two weeks in IA in the UK. Hello, my family enjoying beautiful AIA. [Music] Thanks for tuning in. Next week on Sailing Sacred Seas and with Vaker Away, it’s just me, Car, and our three dogs as we set off on a new challenge. I first solo sailed down the coast of Sardin. I’ll be navigating alone, tackling everything from weather windows to hank anchoring solo as we make our way down towards the southern side there. It’s going to be a test of seammanship, confidence, and patience. So stick around because you won’t want to miss it.

Sailing the Eastern Coast of Sardinia | Lagoon 440 Liveaboard Sailing with Dogs – Episode 010
We’re nearing the end of our very first season aboard our Lagoon 440 Kaia, and what a journey it’s been – nearly 1,000 nautical miles sailed from Spain to Ibiza, Mallorca, Menorca, and now beautiful Sardinia. In this episode, we slow the pace and explore the rugged eastern coastline, finding quiet anchorages, rustic beaches, and hidden coves far from the tourist trail.

Sailing under the headsail, we make a short hop to Punta de S’Achivoni to celebrate Vika’s birthday onboard, before continuing our journey down the coast, surrounded by towering mountains and turquoise waters. With Vika soon heading back to Ibiza and the UK, we enjoy one last wander through the charming town of Portoscuso before our next big challenge.

Next time, Sam takes Kaia and our three salty dogs on his first ever solo sail down the coast to southern Sardinia – a true liveaboard adventure!

🌊 In this episode:

Lagoon 440 liveaboard sailing in Sardinia
Exploring the eastern coast of Sardinia
Sailing with dogs in the Mediterranean
Quiet anchorages and birthday celebrations onboard
Life aboard a cruising catamaran